CAREER: History of Science at the Interface of Biomedical and Environmental Concerns

该奖项支持一个研究CAREER项目，该项目发生在三个不同领域的交汇处：中东研究、医学史和环境史。这项研究的重点是肝脏的健康问题。该项目跨越了历史和当代的公共卫生问题，重点关注政府的环境干预措施，最初导致血吸虫病的发展，导致肝脏纤维化，后来的干预措施应对这一健康问题。她还计划考虑有关丙型肝炎的最新情况，以及获得抗丙型肝炎药物的政治。朴槿惠计划支持3名研究生，他们将被招募从事与她自己的项目互补的科学史项目。本研究将采用档案研究和访谈的方式对她进行研究。她将首先关注19世纪农业实践的变化；具体来说，就是向多年生灌溉的转变。这种生态转变反过来又导致影响农村社区居民和劳动者健康的变化；它促进了血吸虫病的传播。然后，该计划将过渡到研究1950年代和1960年代发生的事态发展，包括关于血吸虫病的全球医学交流，以及实施公共卫生政策以治疗血吸虫病。第三个时期的重点是20世纪80年代末，当时丙型肝炎成为一种重要的公共卫生问题。她将这一观点带到了当代，以及围绕获得抗丙肝药物的政治问题。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports a research CAREER project that occurs at the juncture of three distinct fields: middle east studies, history of medicine, and environmental history. The locus of the study are health issues that specifically concern the liver. The project straddles historical and contemporary public health concerns through a focus on government environmental interventions initially causing the development of schistosomiasis, which leads to fibrosis of the liver, and later interventions responding to this health issue. She also plans to consider the more recent situation with regards to Hepatitis-C, and the politics of access to anti-Hep C medications. The PI plans to support three graduate students, who will be recruited to engage in history of science projects that are complementary to her own project.The research will use archival research and interviews to conduct her study. She will begin by focusing on changes in agricultural practices in the 19th century; specifically, the movement to perennial irrigation practices. This ecological transformation in turn lead to changes that affected the health of those who lived and labored in rural communities; it facilitated the spread of schistosomiasis. The PI will then transition forward to study developments that occurred during the 1950s and 1960s including global medical exchanges concerning schistosomiasis, and the implementation of public health policies to treat schistosomiasis. The third period focuses on is the late 1980s, when Hepatitis C becomes a vital public health. She brings this in to the contemporary moment, and the politics surrounding access to anti-Hep C medications.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.